"I should be doing status reports, so here's my first cut at what is happening and what is going on so far. I'll try to do these every few weeks, and I also encourage the project managers of active projects to also do this," explained Greg KH, posting his October 16'th Status Report for the Linux Driver Project. He noted:

"Currently, I'm talking with about 3-4 new companies about more projects, and am working on a list of external modules that need to get cleaned up and added to the kernel tree that this project can help out with.

"But what we are really lacking right now is more companies involvement. If anyone can think of a way to drum up more company interest, please let me know."

Greg then offered a status summary of all six currently active projects, "here's the current projects, and what is going on with them." Drivers currently being developed by the driver project include, "3 i2c devices, a VOIP gateway driver, USB/PCI driver for video timestamp device, highspeed datacapture device driver, and a video digital demodulator driver" Another project is listed as focusing on cleaning up the existing USB driver.

"This report covers FreeBSD related projects between July and October 2007," began the latest FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, posted by Brad Davis. He included a summary of the recent Google Summer of Code projects noting, "lots of participants are working getting their code merged back into FreeBSD." Regarding the upcoming FreeBSD 7.0 release he noted, "the bugs in the FreeBSD HEAD branch are being shaked out and it is being prepared for the FreeBSD 7 branching. If your are curious about what's new in FreeBSD 7.0 we suggest reading Ivan Voras' excellent summary."

Among the many projects discussed in the status report was work by Marko Zec on network stack virtualization, "the network stack virtualization project aims at extending the FreeBSD kernel to maintain multiple independent instances of networking state. This allows for networking independence between jail-like environmens, each maintaining its private network interface set, IPv4 and IPv6 network and port address space, routing tables, IPSec configuration, firewalls, and more." Another project discussed was the porting of Linux KVM, "a software package that can be used to create virtual machines fully emulating x86 hardware on top of machines supporting Intel VT-x or AMD-V virtualization extensions." The report noted, "Linux KVM has been ported to FreeBSD as a loadable kernel module, using the linux-kmod-compat port (in /usr/ports/devel/) to reuse as much as possible of the original source code, plus an userspace client consisting in a modified version of qemu, that uses KVM for the execution of its guests."

Rafael Wysocki posted a lengthy status report "describing the current state of development of the suspend and hibernation infrastructure: how it works, what known problems there are in it and what the future development plans are". Regarding future plans, Rafael noted, "the part of the suspend and hibernation code that should be taken care of first is the handling of devices. Namely, I think that we should first separate the hibernation-related handling of devices from the suspend-related handling of them in order to overcome limitations mentioned in Section IX. This also will be necessary if we want to try some new approaches to hibernation, such as the kexec-based one recently discussed on the LKML." He added, "the next thing that seems reasonable to do is to eliminate the freezing of tasks, described in Section VI, from the suspend and resume code, since the limitations related to it are regarded by many people as too restrictive." He went on to note:

"There also is the alternative hibernation framework TuxOnIce maintained by Nigel Cunningham, which is more feature-rich than the current in-kernel hibernation code. It therefore seems reasonable to incorporate at least some of the more advanced TuxOnIce features into the in-kernel code. I believe that by combining TuxOnIce with the current in-kernel hibernation implementation we can obtain a relatively simple, but powerful and solid hibernation framework, so I am going to work in this direction".